GUI controls for instrumentation

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 03/25/2006 11:51 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 25 mars 2006 à 11:30 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski a écrit :
>>  Yet situation is IMHO similar to proprietary NVidia drivers: users 
>> just have it easier thanks to the work of Livna developers (at least on 
>> Fedora). And, hey!, users still manage to install proprietary nvidia 
>> drivers from NVidia rather than Livna, with all the hassle it makes! 
> 
> Again that's all fine and dandy with hobbyists/gamers/whatever which are
> ready to make all kinds of stupid sacrifices gratis pro deo. In a work
> context (and I think oscilloscope qualifies) that's a direct helpdesk
> redirection which *will* cost lots of money to someone.
> 
> java GUI is not realistic unless you're not fronting the support calls
> nor are paying for them one way or another.

I see where you're coming from. And I can see this may be a problem. I 
work in a big company on a web application that serves Java applet. 
Occasionally we used to have JRE/plugin issues however since company 
standardizes and pushes (via update mechanism) JRE on each user's 
machine we do not see that anymore. In fact we have more issues with 
Acrobat Reader...
But I can see that in some environments Java on the desktop may be a 
support issue.

Regards,
Dariusz


		
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